This weekend I was going through the August Mother Goose Time box since August starts in just a couple days. The theme for August is Superheroes, and my kids are pretty excited about this one. We are pretty big into Superheroes around here. I always take the last couple days of the month to get ready for the next month. I like to get everything organized and ready to go so that there is a smooth transition from one month to the next. Mother Goose Time already does such a great job at getting everything set up and ready to go so their isn't a lot to do, but I do have a few things I like to prepare before we start. One thing I like to look at is the More Math and More Literacy workbooks we have been getting in addition to our main curriculum.
I like to get an idea of what my son will be doing in the workbooks and this helps me decide what I want to focus on with him. As I was going through the books I couldn't help but notice how cute and how much fun they looked this month. I thought it might be helpful to show what a couple of the pages look like in each book so you could have an idea of what these workbooks are all about. My son is 5 and can do these workbooks with help, and do a few pages on his own if I read the instructions to him. For him they are great supplements to the regular curriculum and they add extra practice of the concepts being learned.
This is the More Literacy workbook
Several pages had the beginnings of stories that they finish or they show pictures and ask them to write a story about it. Here is an example of one of those pages
At the end of each workbook is a review section that you can use as an assessment tool. It is just a quick cumulative page of the concepts taught for the month so you can see how they did. It is very informal and I use it to let me know what we might need to focus more on for the next month. I know when I first started Mother Goose Time I was curios about these workbooks and what they were like inside. I wasn't sure if they would be to easy or difficult. I hope this little peek inside the books helps anyone on the fence about them. So far we have really enjoyed them and are getting a lot out of them.
*Mother Goose Time has generously provided this curriculum to us in exchange for our stories and honest opinions*
I like to get an idea of what my son will be doing in the workbooks and this helps me decide what I want to focus on with him. As I was going through the books I couldn't help but notice how cute and how much fun they looked this month. I thought it might be helpful to show what a couple of the pages look like in each book so you could have an idea of what these workbooks are all about. My son is 5 and can do these workbooks with help, and do a few pages on his own if I read the instructions to him. For him they are great supplements to the regular curriculum and they add extra practice of the concepts being learned.
This is the More Literacy workbook
As I was flipping through it I noticed that there were so many open ended story worksheets that gave the opportunity to tell or finish stories using their own words. One page has them designing their own superheroes and then discussing the powers they gave them.
This is supposed to be a story about a hero with super strength. My son is not writing independently yet so for these projects I am fully happy with him just dictating the story to me and me writing word for word what he says. This is a great way because he doesn't get frustrated by doing work that is to advanced for him and I model good writing for him.
There are also several letter and word games. And just look how cute the pages are. They are so colorful and fun!
The other workbook you get with this add on is the More Math and here is a little closer peek at that one.
Just like the Literacy one this is designed to be used a page a day and goes along with what you are learning about for the month. This book is filled with all kinds of fun math games, puzzles and mazes. It works on math skills ranging from counting and number recognition to shapes, colors, adding, and subtracting.
*Mother Goose Time has generously provided this curriculum to us in exchange for our stories and honest opinions*
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